Diamond Jubilee Celebrations

Thought I would update you all on my Jubilee weekend and the reason I have been 'absent' from the site over the last few days.

My family and I went to London on Saturday for the Jubilee Celebrations. We had previously booked as is our tradition, afternoon tea at the Ritz. Gosh it was absolutely wonderful, so decadent and totally fitting for the commencement of such a wonderful celebration weekend. We next went to Harrods and had a browse around the store and purchased 6 Jubilee cupcakes even though they were £3.75 each . All the women staff at Harrods were wearing tiaras and the children in our party were all given complimentary Harrods Jubilee Flags.

We then had a trip on the London Eye to see the preparations for the Pageant the following day. Then we retired back to our hotel for a family get together and ordered a lovely meal of lobster followed by a glass or two of champagne.

The next morning we enjoyed a leisurely breakfast, then made our way to the Tower of London. My uncle is a retired Yeoman of the Guard (Beefeater) and he had arranged for our party to have complimentary tickets in a private enclosed area overlooking the Thames. We were treated like royalty ourselves, it was such a wonderful experience. We had uninterrupted views of the pageant as it arrived at Tower Bridge. Of course, being in such a privileged seating area, the weather did not affect our enjoyment and I kept my consumption of champagne to a minimum of 2 glasses

The fireworks on Tower Bridge were a sight to behold and the whole event will remain with me for the rest of my life. I am also thrilled that the children were able to join in with such an important event in such an elite seating area. I don’t think there will ever be another Diamond Jubilee in this country and I'm just sad that the event was marred by the Duke of Edinburgh being taken to hospital.

Rubes your celebrations sounds the bees knees girl!! Your a lucky thing you,, having all that special treatment seats and champers it must of been great seeing all that, we will never have another diamond jubilee so its more special somehow.I wish mine was as good as yours but fraid not to be fair it was good..we went up to my folks where they had a street do and it was on the green too so that was good, we had hot dogs and burgers with a bbq and drinks, I had a lot to drink as you must wish I could of got down to London tho!!Did you see Strawbs when you was there? she seems to been away for ages, missing her I am....whats she up to? I sent her 2 msgs but she never replys

Maria wrote:Rubes your celebrations sounds the bees knees girl!! Your a lucky thing you,, having all that special treatment seats and champers it must of been great seeing all that, we will never have another diamond jubilee so its more special somehow.I wish mine was as good as yours but fraid not to be fair it was good..we went up to my folks where they had a street do and it was on the green too so that was good, we had hot dogs and burgers with a bbq and drinks, I had a lot to drink as you must wish I could of got down to London tho!!Did you see Strawbs when you was there? she seems to been away for ages, missing her I am....whats she up to? I sent her 2 msgs but she never replys

Maria x

Hi Maria

Yes Strawbs and I met briefly outside Harrods on the Saturday. We went into Harrods and indulged in a coffee and had a good old catch up and exchanged news, unfortunately, she had to leave after about 3/4 of an hour as she had a prior engagement to attend. She has done so well on her diet and looks absolutely gorgeous, a real genuine hour glass figure that most women would die for including myself